fez

Those mid-jump perspective shifts broke my brane.

Looks fun though. And the music's lovely.

man i almost wanted to cry when i saw that this morning, this game plays on my nostalgia in exactly the right way. the music! the sprites! the engrish! so perfect.

i'ma watch it ALL OVER AGAIN

hey, is there even info on where/ho this is coming out? psn? pc? xbla? psp? ds? sega genesis?

No official release date. It looks like it may be coming soon though. Their official site says, "With GDC only a few more days away, we have been busting our collective ass getting all sorts of things done in time for Fez. We’ll have some pretty big news about the future of the game to announce pretty soon."

I think it's going to be released to PC first?

http://www.kokoromi.org/

oh fuck, it's those guys! i think they're here in mtl!

there's a link to montreal mirror in their blog so i guess you're right

http://www.montrealmirror.com/2008/010308/news2.html

game looks great and i'd love to play something like that in 3d (ant attack 2008). not entirely sure whether the rotate / ignore z depth thing is genius or a gimmick though.

> Fish calls them trixels

how is a trixel different from a voxel? (actually, they are more like tiles than pixels)

well, apparently this game is over a year away from being released after all! It's being developed in xna so I guess it has a good chance of showing up on the xbox maybe. Apparently the game is only the one level so far... I think it's going to be a looong wait

where did you hear that it's >1 year? cos apparently getting to the point they're at took them 3 months from concept to where it's at now, so they're working on a pretty agile schedule...

From a Phil Fish (the creator, I guess) post on gaf...

-this version is being made on XNA. draw your own conclusions.
-we're thinking it should be done in about a year. possibly more.
-its no longer a kokoromi project, it now a POLYTRON project, which is the (actually registered) company me and 6955 (music) have just started.
-its more SMG than SPM.
-i shared my hostel room with petri purho, creator of crayon physics.
-GDC was batshit fucking loco.

Has there been any new news about this? Something at E3 maybe?

was mentioned in a eurogamer report... trudging along i guess?

what do you want to know? i can ask programmer q's irl if you'd like next weekend

which platforms?

i thought that was common knowledge by now? i might be wrong but i am 90% sure you shouldn't count on a ps3 release

http://polytroncorporation.com/?p=512

so this is out and people seem to love it?
http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/fez
think i'll get it; see if it can compete with journey for middlebrow supremacy

i'll probably nab it too

I'll be buying it tonight or tomorrow (as soon as I have some free time!). I can't believe the first post in this thread was over 4 years ago...

i am going to get this! my main irl gaming buddy is raving about it.

downloading now as a gift to myself for getting through the week

Housemate got this y'day and has been playing it nonstop today. Its pretty neat! I love the soundtrack.

it is gorgeous. not quite sure about gameplay yet.

A loooooooot of off-game puzzle solving, I could see it putting many ppl off.

(ie you are gonna need a pen and paper and a lot of patience)

two reasons i'll never play this game: looks lame, the creator is a cunt.

http://thewiredfish.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/phil-fish-tweet.jpg

it is... picky. very picky. there's sort of a lack of natural engaging joyful gaming? i dunno. some games grab you and put you in a world and you feel engaged and like I NEED TO SAVE THIS WORLD but this is more like an immensely pretty rubik's cube

Looks lame? I dont think so! I love the 8 bit artwork and the 2d as 3d cleverness!

ok fish might be a cunt but the other guy on the team is #1 all-time sweetest dude

This game is fantastic.

Just finished this. Loved it, although I kind of wish that it had made you go past some of the places with bigger code hints early in the game. Will go to explore the bits left over some time soon I guess.

just got my main game-playing friend to buy this and spent a v satisfying first hour or so going 'coo' and 'wait maybe if you rotated left? sorry, the other left'

seriously this game is ADORABLE, and really fun for co-operative puzzle-solving (if you enjoy that sort of thing).

the treasure-chest noise and talking hypercube are quite zelda, aren't they

this game is great. We deciphered the alphabet the other day.

I'm enjoying this too, but I'm just focused on cubes I can see grabbing. All the deciphering stuff, no way I'm going to be able to wrap my head around it.

this is so great - admittedly i love cryptograms and "aha!" gaming, but i don't know if a video game has ever given me the feeling of satisfaction i've gotten from this game a dozen times already (and i'm only ~100% complete, ie halfway through)

my only complaint is that it takes a while in gameplay terms before it totally reveals itself - but once it does, holy crap

I don't understand the cryptogram part of the game at all. Does it click at some point?

yeah - (attn: spoilers...)

eventually you stumble across an in-game machine that teaches the pentomino/input mappings, and another etched tablet that contains every letter in the in-game alphabet as part of a common phrase/pangram

i forget where the number system gets introduced but i actually wound up cracking it myself really early in gameplay - visually it's not hard to understand

there's a ton of backtracking to come after you figure these things out, obviously, but that's half the fun of it imo

i have this now and i absolutely love it

very amused by the meta-achievement, although i am worried that i might have triggered it a little early on

if it's the one i think, don't worry, you can do it whenever. it gives you a few easy clues to get it.

hands down the best downloadable 360 game i have ever seen

i really loved it until it ate my save game. twice. the programmer dude (who is not phil fish) was pleasantly apologetic in an email so i'm not real pissed about it but i am wary of getting my heart broken again.

oh man, considering the stacked progression in this game i would be apoplectic with rage if my save game got eaten. i think the only other game in recent memory that got the puzzle/platform combo this right was the portal stuff, and the puzzles are actually in many ways even more rewarding in this one. it just seems incredibly full of stuff to do and new surprises and this crazy feel of endurance in the long run - idk how many hours i have in so far, but i def feel like i have barely scratched the surface. also, for what is functionally a sidescroller, every world has a different feel or trick, and it has that rare feeling of self-discovery and skill boosting w/o handholding or cheap tricks to hold you back - its killer in every way. and huge!

you know it really didn't do anything for me

i think we differ a lot on smaller d/l stuff tho? i know there was something recently you were really into and then i showed up w/my usual deep analysis of "hey i played the demo of this and it was fucking crap".

Once I beat the main game I had no desire to figure out any of the cryptogram stuff, but I loved the first part, definitely getting a vote from me in C+P

i was kind of dreading the sorta metagame stuff (and i am not deep into it yet so i should prob stfu in case it ends up sucking) but i feel like theres a really natural curve from "oh hey this is a clever platformer" to "wtf is up with all these repeated symbols" to "huh i wonder what happens if i put this block here according to this pattern OH SHIT WHOA" that sorta smooths out the transition to the big picture crypto stuff. it feels really well integrated and natural to follow that path.

yeah, we go different directions on ome of this stuff

first impressions: holy shit this game is crraaaaaaaaazy. blown away

frreal?

is it repetitive?

worried the only thing there'd be to the gameplay is rotate until the solution is obv

the game has clever puzzle platforming design, but it's really the whole visual package, direction, story-telling, music, the colors!, the intangible attitudes and so on that's kicking my ass and face. this game was clearly made by a madman, and i love it for that

"beat" it; not sure if i really want to go down the rabbit hole with the cryptogram stuff or just move on with my life. err, "life"

maybe that sounds negative, but it's really a wonderful game

Steam May 1

I have to wait a while for Mac tho

wow. this game is colorful.

lol.

dude is troubled, hope he finds fulfillment in his next venture

What the

I had wondered why the game thread popped up on SomethingAwful with a buncha new posts.

what an odd guy.

enjoy the comments

http://polytroncorporation.com/fez-ii-cancelled

hopefully this means he vanishes from public life forever

^this

Fez was fun but this dude's petulance is so offputting.

so privileged and talented and such a massive baby

Okay is there more backstory here than "dude handles criticism poorly" (plz say no)

not really

actually i bet there is, but who knows if we'll ever know

been reading a few stories about what happened, this is incredibly funny

i watched 'indie game' on netflix recently, this guy is the best part of it especially when he threatens to murder his ex-partner on camera over a legal dispute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm5Lnei4S6M

"Gents," Beer said. "You were the guys who did Indie Game: the Movie. And some of you looked relatively normal in it, one of you looked like a total tosspot in it. But you can't have it both ways. You're successful game designers — you're 'indie' game designers — hurrah, good for you, you fucking hipsters."

Soon after the podcast was posted, Phil Fish posted on Twitter, "I fucking hate this industry" , told Marcus Beer over twitter to kill himself, and then asked for a public apology.

Later in the day, Phil then locked his twitter account and canceled Fez 2, saying "I'm done. Fez 2 is canceled. Goodbye."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm5Lnei4S6M

theres no winners here really. gaming journos are all whores too.

yup

good thing m@tt doesn't read this board

for someone who's twitter avatar is andy kaufman, he's done a pretty poor job of dealing with all the controversy he's stirred up

i was thinking that myself! What if this is THE MOST ELABORATE TROLL

i never "got" fez honestly, much as i wanted to

controv suggestion, the indie game scene is pretty shit

http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/swimming-in-a-sea-of-shit-the-internets-war-against-creatives
lol, get the fuck out of here

if you wanna have a conversation about the coarsening of online conversation or just general criticism fine but for god's sake this guy is caught up in this nonsense the same as anyone else

i never "got" fez honestly, much as i wanted to

― sassy, fun, and RELATABLE (forksclovetofu), Monday, July 29, 2013 10:20 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark

sounds like you did get it

It was great.

word

I didn't quite realize to what extent Fish lost it. The tweets here are a bit O_o

http://www.gamefront.com/did-phil-fish-just-angrily-cancel-fez-2-via-twitter/

good thing m@tt doesn't read this board

― My Buddy® of sexting (DJP), Monday, July 29, 2013 9:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hah I give him an exception because he writes for a publication about actual games, not recycling press releases and selective leaks for the publishers to bolster their marketing campaigns.

surprised no one has done a "phil fish is off the internet because of you" dn yet

also, amused that this guy is taking the moment to free verse about hard timez
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/7831-Go-Fish

though the "dude, don't argue on the internet" argument applies pretty much everywhere

http://i.imgur.com/RTPcqfh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/4COiuwF.png

Hm.

eh, that's an easy shop

agreed, hence the hm but still

:]

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mblld4wWb11qzu9hao1_500.png

great game, v druggy

the ps3 version is fairly recent right? i thought i remembered wanting to play this awhile back and it wasnt available

yeah, it came later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmTUW-owa2w

Digibro11 hours ago

This is fantastic. As someone who, myself, has been micro-famous as part of the brony community,

haha i ws watching this earlier

did that really need 20 minutes of my life to get the point across

Finally playing this because the vita version was (is?) cheap this week. Could turn out to be my favourite game soundtrack ever.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/08/22/fez-creator-sells-company-after-hackers-expose-his-personal-info

Yeaaaargh nobody looks good there

Watching the credits for It Follows, noticed Disasterpeace did a great job on the soundtrack. I remember when he was still putting out self-released EPs on 8-Bit Collective and/or the like. He's really movin' up!
http://music.disasterpeace.com/album/it-follows

i got the carpenter references throughout but honestly don't think that music matched the film well.